Bacon at The Matrix

Bacon

The Matrix
7657 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles

This story takes an unflinching and unexpectedly humorous look at power and sexuality, through the dizzying lens of youth. One of the boys is new at school and too scared to make friends. The other is out of control and too scary to make friends. But, the two of them need each other. Worlds apart, but more similar than they realize, the pair form a complex and manipulative relationship and before they know it, they're embarking on a dangerous experiment that will alter the course of their lives.

Presented by Rogue Machine

Thru - Apr 20, 2025

Thursdays: 8:00pm

Fridays: 5:00pm

Saturdays: 5:00pm

Sundays: 8:00pm

Price: $45

Show Type: Comedy/Drama

Box Office: 323-852-1445

Running Time: 1hr, 20mins

www.matrixtheatre.com

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Bacon Reviews

Average Rating based on 4 reviews

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Los Angeles Times - Highly Recommended

"...The production, directed by Michael Matthews, concentrates intensely on the interplay between Guimarães and Lancaster. The actors, while adopting the English accents of their characters, bring their own individualities to the roles. "Bacon" is the kind of play that will transform through the particularities of its performers."

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- Charles McNulty

LA Splash - Highly Recommended

"...BACON is an intense and powerful character study of two kids on the brink of growing up. As such, the play will definitely appeal to audiences interested in the evolution of people through stressful life events. Parents may also find the play involving as it examines the chaotic minds of youth and the unexpected steps they may take to develop the order of maturity. BACON is a perfect play for the intimate Henry Murray Stage (upstairs) in the Matrix Theatre. It is entertaining but also powerful and thought-provoking."

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- Elaine Mura

Stage Raw - Recommended

"...Set in the present day, the play unfolds in a series of flashbacks. Christopher Moscatielleo's essential sound design, with its whooshing water effects, effectively mirrors the psychic state of the characters, who are swamped in a rising tide of rampaging hormones and sexual ambiguity. In a tightly compressed staging, director Michael Matthews builds the action to harrowing intensity (although why, during scene breaks, do the performers repeatedly shift furniture to no apparent effect?)"

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- F. Kathleen Foley

Peoples World - Recommended

"...Award-winning British playwright Sophie Swithinbank's Bacon is a taut two-hander, a wringing, stinging sexploration of the fraught relationship between two troubled youths, Mark (Wesley Guimarães) and Darren (Jack Lancaster), set in London. Both are what used to be called, in social worker parlance, "products of broken homes." Mark, who is being raised by his immigrant mother, is of Brazilian background. Darren lives-no, resides is a better word-with his abusive, unemployed, drink-prone father, who is originally from Ireland."

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- Ed Rampell

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Los Angeles Times - Highly Recommended

LA Splash - Highly Recommended

Stage Raw - Recommended

Peoples World - Recommended

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